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we would prefer to reduce by 20% and 30% investments in education." that's not something that is consistently traditional with how democrats or republicans survive. >> rose: some believe that you've lost faith in some sense of this business capacity to come to compromise and that view this election to say to the country there are two ideologies and they're in conflict and you have to make a decision as to whether we can go a different direction. >> i do think that the american people are the ultimate tiebreaker. >> rose: they can break the fever? >> they can break the fever. so, look let me give you another example. my... the health care bill that the republicans have called everything from... (laughs) a child of god. right, i mean... >> rose: everything but a what? >> they've... they have... you know, who... they've made a center piece of what they consider to be my mistakes as president. there's a reason why their front-runner has a problem talking about it. because it basically matches what he signed into law in massachusetts and that's been succes
we would prefer to reduce by 20% and 30% investments in education." that's not something that is consistently traditional with how democrats or republicans survive. >> rose: some believe that you've lost faith in some sense of this business capacity to come to compromise and that view this election to say to the country there are two ideologies and they're in conflict and you have to make a decision as to whether we can go a different direction. >> i do think that the american...
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, patients need better education about the pain they are suffering from and its treatments and the treatment n an anti-epileptic drug called pregavlin or known as lirica and have been on that still to this day i have been on it since the day i was diagnosed until currently. >> and how is that work something. >> it is not that i can tell it is working. it is not like i take it and i say oh this helps, i feel better. it is more if wrote take it i notice a difference in the pain in my leg and kind of how my leg feels and kind of the nerve firing in it. >> rose: right. >> so then what we did because nothing obviously was helping with my pain, i had a number of injections in my back called lumbar sympathetic nerve block, and basically this would essentially block out the pain and it worked great, except that what was explained to me is that they were supposed to build on each other so that the time inbetween each injection would get longer inbetween each one so eventually i wouldn't need them anymore, unfortunately, that didn't work for me, and about every four to sticks weeks, it would wear off
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education and educated citizenry is absolutely essential to moving from campaigning to governing because governing is more example than campaigning except this campaign which was the most painful campaign which may push the public to yearn for governing. >> rose: i got some currency a little while back seemed less so now because tough times have come to other parts of the world. is america in decline. david where do you come on the idea of america on decline? >> i call my family mother moses and trump's everybody else's founding father. [laughter] >> rose: he wants to talk about abraham. >> and you never saw the promised land. >> unfair. >> came close. i never really thought this america in decline business. in part you look at people under 30. they are tremendously holding a responsible generation. they have -- but until then, they're very hard working responsible. they're going to save our bacon. second, america is still basically america. we still have a very creative dynamic culture. we have a lot of advantage going forward. there's a global middle class rising, they're going to be b
education and educated citizenry is absolutely essential to moving from campaigning to governing because governing is more example than campaigning except this campaign which was the most painful campaign which may push the public to yearn for governing. >> rose: i got some currency a little while back seemed less so now because tough times have come to other parts of the world. is america in decline. david where do you come on the idea of america on decline? >> i call my family...
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education hugely. we don't have national standards, the race to the top is showing some progress and we're starving our state universities, penn is privileged to be a private university. has great supporters who continued to enable us to have need-based financial aids but theberg lise and michigan and u.v.a.s of this country are being starved and we're going to lose out, we are losing out and it's a tragedy because that's the economic engine of our country. it's the engine of opportunity to narrow that divide between the haves and have notes. >> rose: back to this issue of wanting to do lots of things but living in a world in which we have too much debt and how do we break that gridlock, that dysfunction in washington. what does a new president have to do that previous presidents have not done? >> i'm not actually sure it's in washington. i think it's from a deeper cultural problem. i'm struck by in this election now it was possible to lie without any negative consequences for both parties. that's a na
education hugely. we don't have national standards, the race to the top is showing some progress and we're starving our state universities, penn is privileged to be a private university. has great supporters who continued to enable us to have need-based financial aids but theberg lise and michigan and u.v.a.s of this country are being starved and we're going to lose out, we are losing out and it's a tragedy because that's the economic engine of our country. it's the engine of opportunity to...
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and afghanistan and neglected for example developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. >> sportsdesk to be able to fulfill our role in the world, america must be strong. america must lead. and for that to happen, we have to strengthen our exhibit here at home. >> he doesn't have different ideas and that is because we are doing exactly what we should be doing. >> come on our web site and look at how we get to a balanced budget within eight to ten years, we do it by getting, by reducing spending and a whole series of programs. >> it just doesn't work and we visited the web site quite a bit and it still doesn't work. >> rose: let me get back to foreign policy. can i just get back? >> we have to strengthen our military long-term we don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road. we make decisions today in the military that will confront challenges we can't imagine. >> i think governor romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military works. you mentioned the may i have, for example. and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. w
and afghanistan and neglected for example developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. >> sportsdesk to be able to fulfill our role in the world, america must be strong. america must lead. and for that to happen, we have to strengthen our exhibit here at home. >> he doesn't have different ideas and that is because we are doing exactly what we should be doing. >> come on our web site and look at how we get to a balanced budget within eight to...
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i think that causes rushes to stereotype it causes some paralysis around what to do but we want to educate people about the issues facing our community and give them onramps in ways to help and we frame in the four basic categories of what folks need coming hope: health care, education, employment, and community. and the last one is sometimes the most important. because of that isolation, they need to be around other veterans they need to be around other family members who know what where they're coming from but they need to come home to supportive civilian communities who can action against those issues. unemployment is a huge challenge facing our members. we see about a 17% unemployment rate. that should be acceptable for everyone and we want folks to think about these veterans not just as charity cases but an investment. we can build a new greatest generation who can meet us in business and help turn around our economy but they need opportunities and support. >> rose: so, eric, what about people who are on the front lines of the battle who may very well-being feeling certain kinds of pr
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or to solve an issue of a country on the education, if you will. or to solve a healthcare issue. >> rose: and learn about acquisitions because that's been part of your growth and you continue to be. >> but charlie, i think most people in high tech would say, we learned how to do acquisitions extremely well. and it really expands what innovation's b the bus word around the world whether you're a company individual or country is how fast can you innovate. high tech use to innovated by doing it themselves. what we brought to the market was the ability to innovate by doing it yourselves including internal start ups but also by acquiring and building on acquisitions. we've done about 150 acquisitions over the years. if we had just stayed in our original product area on the routers, we would be about one seventh the size we are today. we moved into areas called switching through acquisitions. that's 30% of our business. we moved into areas like data centers through acquisitions. we're growing 90% in this area, gaining market share. >> rose: what's intere
or to solve an issue of a country on the education, if you will. or to solve a healthcare issue. >> rose: and learn about acquisitions because that's been part of your growth and you continue to be. >> but charlie, i think most people in high tech would say, we learned how to do acquisitions extremely well. and it really expands what innovation's b the bus word around the world whether you're a company individual or country is how fast can you innovate. high tech use to innovated by...
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questioning our economic system, i mean, we take pride as americans that we question and debate our education only system, our transportation system for the last couple of years we have been debating our medical insurance and medical care system, but for 50 years at least when it comes to the capitalist system, whether you are republican or a democrat, cheerleading is the substitute for serious questions, for serious debate. >> rose: preet bharara and the debate against capitalism when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. >> rose: additional funding provided by these funders. >> and by bloomberg. a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. >> from our studios in new york captioning sponsoreby rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: preet bharara is here, he is the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, a powerful job, he has held since 2009. he is best known for cracking down hard on financial misconduct, with a series of insider trading convictions to his credit he has been ca
questioning our economic system, i mean, we take pride as americans that we question and debate our education only system, our transportation system for the last couple of years we have been debating our medical insurance and medical care system, but for 50 years at least when it comes to the capitalist system, whether you are republican or a democrat, cheerleading is the substitute for serious questions, for serious debate. >> rose: preet bharara and the debate against capitalism when we...
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we lost our lead as the countries that's the most educated country in the world. >> rose: right. >> we have various problems with our trading relationships with other countries. and i think sometimes people get a little mixed up here. in saying that, well, it's really this popping of the bubble that is our main problem. people who say that, i think the evidence is on their side. sometimes people go too far and they says that's our whole problem. it's not our only problem that is what is driving the unemployment rate right now. the deficit and education troubles and all these other things, they are major problems that are playing a role now and will be with us for decades to come. >> what specifics do you want to know? because you foe something about the economy. >> from romney i would really like to know what he plans to do with taxes. my colleagues david-- had a really nice story about this on the front page of the times on monday rses let me interrupt you. because i want to read from that because i have it right here in front of me. >> great. >> rose: if any single question, this is
we lost our lead as the countries that's the most educated country in the world. >> rose: right. >> we have various problems with our trading relationships with other countries. and i think sometimes people get a little mixed up here. in saying that, well, it's really this popping of the bubble that is our main problem. people who say that, i think the evidence is on their side. sometimes people go too far and they says that's our whole problem. it's not our only problem that is...
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who cares more about a student's education? the local teacher there and the parent and maybe the pta -- >> rose: are you going abolish the department of education? >> thomas jefferson said if you want to be involved in education, you have to change the constitution, here is one of the writers of the constitution, he said for the federal government to be in it you have to have an amendment to the constitution to allow them to do that. that is a classic example of "we are failing. is we have ignored the very idea of a limited government, we have spread out, and we are not effective. there are wonderful roles for the federal government. i want us -- i believe in the role of government. in multitude of areas but the areas we have gotten into, we are not effective -- >> rose: let me ask this because this ought to be part of the debate, where you believe in the role of government? certainly in national security and that is clearly. >> in our courts and -- >> rose: investments -- >> we can invest in research in areas that nobody could
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that's where we need the education. >> rose: as the shaping influence in your lif, covering world war ii, tell me what it's done for you and what the experience was for you. >> well, i think it's loaded my stock of things to write about. i mean i am chock full of things have have never put down and many of them kate out of the war. i am constantly reminded of things coy start all over and not reat anything in there. so that i think a writer does need to have sort of a fullback. >> when you went back to rit this, did you go back and read all the things that you had written. >> i didn't read all of them but i went through a lot of the stories i had written, hundreds of them and made notes. and i not only, not only reminded me of that specific story but then it reminded me of things i never wrote about that story. >> you were, when you think of the event that you covered, you just happen to reflect on some of them, d-day, you were at normandy. >> i was not there d-day. >> but you came on a couple days later. you got there fast enough to see the body stacked up on the beach. >> yes. >> it
that's where we need the education. >> rose: as the shaping influence in your lif, covering world war ii, tell me what it's done for you and what the experience was for you. >> well, i think it's loaded my stock of things to write about. i mean i am chock full of things have have never put down and many of them kate out of the war. i am constantly reminded of things coy start all over and not reat anything in there. so that i think a writer does need to have sort of a fullback....
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it means the education i'm getting isn't subject to the local nation. >> rose: and maybe you can educate yourself as a matter of fact you want to. >> i i was 14 before i could study a foreign language. i could choose spanish or french. i came from the richest nation on earth. now, imagine if you're four years old and have the choice of 100 languages and you don't have to ask your parents' permission, the mayor's permirkz the local religious leader's position, or the president of the country's permission. now you're endeathering and unleashing the power of humanity to an extent we are never seen. >> rose: some of the concliewgs of your book, the destruction of paper. , new kinds of cash, new kinds of transactions. what do you mean by that? >> i can create a key and put it on my phone and then i can use my phone to open a door. but that's the most basic thing that happens. as soon as the key becomes a piece of software, i can flip the key to 20 people. then i can create a key that only works if i'm not in the house. i can create a key that only works if i am in the house. i can create thes
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for a good education. >> and when you look at education statistics in the u.s. compared to rest of the industrialized world, we fell to what? >> we're way in the middle. we-- we are not at the top of the league any more by a long shot. we need to spend more on technology if we want to be competitive in the world. >> why didn't we do this in the smulus program that was enacted? >> i think we should have done more. i think the -- >> was it a commit political compromise that prevented the stimulus program being what might have met your approval. >> it was partly a political compromise. i think it was partly a misdiagnosis. >> even though republicans didn't vote for it. >> that's right. but it was partly a misdiagnosis that we were going to be facing a short-term problem and what i just described are long-term things. and they wanted to focus on things that be would short term fillers. their model was the financial sector was sick. you put it in the hospital. for a year and a half or two, then it recovers. and the economy goes on as it was before. >> even though my
for a good education. >> and when you look at education statistics in the u.s. compared to rest of the industrialized world, we fell to what? >> we're way in the middle. we-- we are not at the top of the league any more by a long shot. we need to spend more on technology if we want to be competitive in the world. >> why didn't we do this in the smulus program that was enacted? >> i think we should have done more. i think the -- >> was it a commit political...
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savings so that we bring those, and increase, create some room for us to invest in infrastructure, education indication, things important for the long run and our challenge in this area are very manageable challenges, relative to what almost any major economy around the world is facing on the fiscal side, but we can't put them off forever, how we do them is very important, but we can't delay this. >> rose: as you know the president has been criticized by democrats for saying he did not stand up hard enough. these criticisms you do hear within the party with respect to the negotiations on the debt ceiling and raised questions about that, that he should have been prepared to stair into the abyss, that question comes up again, is the president this time saying to the republicans, don't think that i am not prepared to -- i am not froapd extend this deadline beyond january 1st? i am not going to offer some type of extension so we can work on it. >> that's right. >> rose: push comes to shove on january 1st. >> let me again slain what the president is trying to. do he is trying to balance two thing
savings so that we bring those, and increase, create some room for us to invest in infrastructure, education indication, things important for the long run and our challenge in this area are very manageable challenges, relative to what almost any major economy around the world is facing on the fiscal side, but we can't put them off forever, how we do them is very important, but we can't delay this. >> rose: as you know the president has been criticized by democrats for saying he did not...
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so even someone like me who had a university education, you know, i had-- i was an educated person bo wanted to work very much. i was really trapped. you know, with you fall beneath a certain level of poverty and without rich relatives, it's very, very difficult to get out of that situation. >> rose: and you want us to understand these are real people. >> yeah. >> rose: with real lives. and generosity-- and all these other human qualities, everybody has. >> exactly right, yeah, yeah. >> rose: and do you want us to also understand that they feel, not only that they don't matter, but that others perhaps more fortunate have contempt for them or just don't know them? >> well, i think it's a mixture of both. i think that it's easy to caricature. i would say that this is-- i feel this is not a black and white book in the sense that i do not wish to glamorize every poor character in the book nor do i. i'm not suggesting that everyone who is living in poverty is heroic. but all i would say is there is probably about the same proportion of unheroic characters living in poverty as there are in
so even someone like me who had a university education, you know, i had-- i was an educated person bo wanted to work very much. i was really trapped. you know, with you fall beneath a certain level of poverty and without rich relatives, it's very, very difficult to get out of that situation. >> rose: and you want us to understand these are real people. >> yeah. >> rose: with real lives. and generosity-- and all these other human qualities, everybody has. >> exactly...
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. >> we are good about killing off creativity in k to 12 education that a very sad fact but they have come to internalize this myth about creativity that it is a rare gift. when the scientists come that creativity is a defining feature of human nature and a universal talent. this doesn't mean it is evenly distributed-- some are more creative than others, but it does mean we can get better at it. >> rose: you say it is our most important mental talent. >> well, we live in a world surrounded by our own inventions just look around in this world, it has come to define the human species. this is stuff we all invented, it didn't always exist and this is the world we live in. >> and where does it come from? >> you know, it comes from these... it comes from in here. it doesn't come from the muses. the other myth i really wanted to expose about the creativity process for a long time is we use creativity of a singular thing, there is one way we should be thinking when we need a new idea. creativity is a catchall term for a variety of the same thought processes that sometimes you need a moment o
. >> we are good about killing off creativity in k to 12 education that a very sad fact but they have come to internalize this myth about creativity that it is a rare gift. when the scientists come that creativity is a defining feature of human nature and a universal talent. this doesn't mean it is evenly distributed-- some are more creative than others, but it does mean we can get better at it. >> rose: you say it is our most important mental talent. >> well, we live in a...
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if we are, or because we have been educated, if we have, but because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. >> mrs. darcy is engaged to my daughter, now what are you to say? >> you can have no reason to suppose you would make an offer to me. >> you selfish girl. this has been planned since their infancy, do you think it can be prevent bid a young woman of inferior birth. >> you have no courage. stick your finger out and it will come right. >> i am trying to save your finances. >> i don't need your protection, thank you very much. >> >> they are obviously not daring enough, why don't we get rid of the clothes. >> pardon? me? >> let's have naked girls. >> i think -- when i was young i had such a vision of myself. i dreamt i would be someone to be reckoned with, you know, in the world. but one learns one's scale. i have thought of ending my days alone. >> my dear you must not concern yourself, a great actress like yourself has many things on your mind. >> you think i am a great actress? >> you know how to act for the camera. >> rose: so what do you think? >> already so
if we are, or because we have been educated, if we have, but because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. >> mrs. darcy is engaged to my daughter, now what are you to say? >> you can have no reason to suppose you would make an offer to me. >> you selfish girl. this has been planned since their infancy, do you think it can be prevent bid a young woman of inferior birth. >> you have no courage. stick your finger out and it will come right. >>...
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important things about investnt in our future, important things about education and important things about energy, important things about regulation, all of those things, and as kurt said goes to the core, i think of who we are and who who can tap into that and provide that kind of narrative stands the best chance of winning in 2012. thank you all. pleasure to have you here. thank you, we will see you tomorrow night. thank you. thank you. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> funding for charlie rose has been provided by the coca-cola company, supporting this program since 2002. >> and american express. additional funding provided by these funders. >> andably bloomberg. a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. be more.
important things about investnt in our future, important things about education and important things about energy, important things about regulation, all of those things, and as kurt said goes to the core, i think of who we are and who who can tap into that and provide that kind of narrative stands the best chance of winning in 2012. thank you all. pleasure to have you here. thank you, we will see you tomorrow night. thank you. thank you. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by...
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. >> rose: one american said education was your oil. >> education is an oil. look, today, the top -- the top ten -- out of the top ten countries in the world for launching tech stocks in the company, two percent of the region's population but at the same time we provide 75 percent of all content of content for the internet, ad content for the internet, jordan is a powerhouse for such a small country. >> rose: does that mean when you look at jordan and anybody suggest the culture in arab countries does not promote the kind of entrepreneurship and educational opportunity that it did in israel? they are simply wrong? >> i think we can always give the israelis a run for their money. i mean if you look at the results of even on education results, on the international criteria, when it comes to sciences and mathematics we are equally if not in many cases we beat israel dla speaking of the american election would jordan be better off if there was a republican or a second term democrat in power? >> well, the simple question is we don't involve ourselves in the interna
. >> rose: one american said education was your oil. >> education is an oil. look, today, the top -- the top ten -- out of the top ten countries in the world for launching tech stocks in the company, two percent of the region's population but at the same time we provide 75 percent of all content of content for the internet, ad content for the internet, jordan is a powerhouse for such a small country. >> rose: does that mean when you look at jordan and anybody suggest the...
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to engage them with education. to engage them with opportunity, and most importantly to advance democracy in america. he was a poor kid who made a fortune creating an antiseptic and in 1912 he began yes collecting art, collected one of the greatest collections of modern art ever formed and housed it in a mansion which he built next to his former home and established an educational foundation which encouraged what he called ordinary people to engage with art, to learn from art, to appreciate art. and most importantly it was about contemporary art. the conditions that barnes imposed in his charitable deed of gift were very constraining and so we ended up in a position where it was very difficult to operate the foundation. finances were in a very dire strait and the board of trustees petitions the court to move the collection to philadelphia so that the institution could survive. we're in the heart of philadelphia here on a street which was supposed to be the champs-elysees of america designed by two great french arch
to engage them with education. to engage them with opportunity, and most importantly to advance democracy in america. he was a poor kid who made a fortune creating an antiseptic and in 1912 he began yes collecting art, collected one of the greatest collections of modern art ever formed and housed it in a mansion which he built next to his former home and established an educational foundation which encouraged what he called ordinary people to engage with art, to learn from art, to appreciate...
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build the infrastructure, build the education. >> anybody doesn't that doesn't think once we do this four trillion dollar down payment that growth isn't the most important thing is crazy. so that's what we have to be looking at for broader tax reform. >> rose: and simpson-bowles is a good guideline? >> i think simpson-bowles is a great starting point. like i said, you've got two guys who have to make this happen and we should do whatever we can to make their jobs more straightforward. >> rose: for whose who say we can go over the fiscal cliff and it might not be such a bad thing, you say in >> i think that say they're people that don't have anybody that works for them we haven't been on this for two weeks or two days or two months. we've been work thong for two and a half years. what happened in july of 2011 was ugly. i read stories now that say the president lost or he shouldn't have done this or speaker boehner done that. they both failed. nobody won on that moment in time. it made us -- it hurt us inside the country, it hurt us outside the country. so i would say if this goes into
build the infrastructure, build the education. >> anybody doesn't that doesn't think once we do this four trillion dollar down payment that growth isn't the most important thing is crazy. so that's what we have to be looking at for broader tax reform. >> rose: and simpson-bowles is a good guideline? >> i think simpson-bowles is a great starting point. like i said, you've got two guys who have to make this happen and we should do whatever we can to make their jobs more...
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not people that come could to us with requests. >> charlie: the principal focus is in education. >> education is the most time consuming. >> charlie: you believe it has huge consequences if we don't get it. >> i sure do. you know, it was 28 years ago when they wrote a nation at risk. three weeks ago the council on foreign relations came out with a report saying education is a major national security issue. that 70% of people 18-24 are not fit to serve in the military. i found that astounding. >> charlie: what should we do? >> we have to fix a broken system. >> charlie: charter schools are one way? >> charter schools... public charter schools are one way. it gives parents a choice. it allows the breast practices that they have to be emulated at other public schools. we need a longer school day, a longer school year. our kids are shortchanged. they only get 720 hours a year on average in academics. in other countries it's one-and-a-half times that. >> charlie: we have fallen behind other countries. >> we sure have. >> charlie: in a significant way. >> we used to have the number one graduation r
not people that come could to us with requests. >> charlie: the principal focus is in education. >> education is the most time consuming. >> charlie: you believe it has huge consequences if we don't get it. >> i sure do. you know, it was 28 years ago when they wrote a nation at risk. three weeks ago the council on foreign relations came out with a report saying education is a major national security issue. that 70% of people 18-24 are not fit to serve in the military. i...
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. >> and just wasn't happy with the way my education prepared me to help people. the typical education teaches you tow analyze problems but not actually to solve them. and i was frustrated by my inability to really relieve people's pain and distress. being a complainer, i complained to a lot of people, and a friend mine told me about phil stutts and a seminar he was giving. >> rose: what did he say? >> he was techg a tool, the first tool in the book but what was really impressive, unlike all the other therapists i met, he didn't talk down to people. >> basically, a tool is a procedure. it's an inner procedure you can excuse it will change your state to help you deal with the problem. the problem is you're feeling a little depressed -- just as an example. or another example would be your obsession, you're angry with somebody, you can't get them out of consider head. if you want to remove the problem really quickly. it won't remove it permanently. for that you use the tool over and over and over again. but the fact that it did make a change quick gives people hope c
. >> and just wasn't happy with the way my education prepared me to help people. the typical education teaches you tow analyze problems but not actually to solve them. and i was frustrated by my inability to really relieve people's pain and distress. being a complainer, i complained to a lot of people, and a friend mine told me about phil stutts and a seminar he was giving. >> rose: what did he say? >> he was techg a tool, the first tool in the book but what was really...
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i think we need to be very clear that we think societies that educate their people up to the highest modern standards, that empower their women, that allow for pluralistic politics and religious tolerance and who control their own borders and extremist forces within them but within a certain rule of law, that countries that do that -- and countries that keep their international agreements, i.e., the treaty with israel, countries that do that do well in the modern world. and we should basically be saying "you live up to those principles and we will be happy to partner with you on your schools, on programs to promote literacy, on programs to empower women, on programs to build a stronger electoral politics." but i think we need to make very clear that have's there's a really important principle for me, charlie. the middle east only puts a smile on your face when it starts with them. that is, if we're cramming things down their throat that they don't really want it's not going to happen. and one of the things that i really believe is that the initiative's got to come from them. one thin
i think we need to be very clear that we think societies that educate their people up to the highest modern standards, that empower their women, that allow for pluralistic politics and religious tolerance and who control their own borders and extremist forces within them but within a certain rule of law, that countries that do that -- and countries that keep their international agreements, i.e., the treaty with israel, countries that do that do well in the modern world. and we should basically...
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and i believe with less jobs, with less education, less education, this led to what happened and politically also the people is not accepting what they are doing in motes of the arab con-- most of the arab countries because they believe there is principles which we are not taking it seriously in the arab world. we are not taking care about many problems in our regis specially when you see what's going on in palestine, what's going in su sue in s somalia. we need a leadership who can lead. >> charlie: egypt. >> all the big countries without mentioning names. but what is very important that we need a vision. our people need a vision, need a hope. but not false hope. we need a hope with a plan. we have to tell them the reality. it's not necessary to tell them we are going to give them this financially. you need to work financially, politically, you need to work in the human side, education, medication. all the other things you need to bring it together and you have to pvide them with a full package of how will be your vision as the government or as a country. >> charlie: i hear you saying that
and i believe with less jobs, with less education, less education, this led to what happened and politically also the people is not accepting what they are doing in motes of the arab con-- most of the arab countries because they believe there is principles which we are not taking it seriously in the arab world. we are not taking care about many problems in our regis specially when you see what's going on in palestine, what's going in su sue in s somalia. we need a leadership who can lead....
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in particular professional classes, educated people. this is what happened to us in lebanon in 1970. exactly what happened in iraq and that's why, charlie, syria smells like civil war. my fear is not that syria is not at civil war now. my fear is that the beginning of civil war might turn out into all out civil war that would destroy the social fabric of the country. that's why i would argue the united states, rightly so, has been very reluctant to plunge in and send a military force or intervene militarily. >> rose: as we tape this, we're in the middle of presidential elections for egypt. what might be the turnout there? white whatçfwt.j government and what would it look like and who would friends be? >> first of all, the beauty about what's happening in egypt is we don't know what who's going to win. you know as well as i do that the polls are very have tile. the fact that we don't know who's going to win is a testament to how changed egypt is. this is the freest election since 1952 when the military9 the beauty about what's happenin
in particular professional classes, educated people. this is what happened to us in lebanon in 1970. exactly what happened in iraq and that's why, charlie, syria smells like civil war. my fear is not that syria is not at civil war now. my fear is that the beginning of civil war might turn out into all out civil war that would destroy the social fabric of the country. that's why i would argue the united states, rightly so, has been very reluctant to plunge in and send a military force or...
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education. i mean, you have to get, you know, moving ahead with our country. you can't just stand still. >> rose: could the president go to the country and say what you just said and find a willing within the economic community, the financial minute, the markets around the world, if he made that clearly a plan that we need to spend more and investment ideas to contribute to the economic growth and yet at the same time we have to match that with the kind of entitlement cuts that are clearly necessary because as at someone once said you go hunting where the ducks are? >> i think economists and markets would be thrilled to hear that, as long as it were tempered by saying we need to make sure we are not spending too much on the infrastructure, we are going to try to improve everything. i think people would be thrilled to hear it. the problem, is we have this paralysis that we start with at the beginning, this incredible political paralysis, you know, that we see it with gun control laws, everything, and i think it is very hard to make this kind of rational approac
education. i mean, you have to get, you know, moving ahead with our country. you can't just stand still. >> rose: could the president go to the country and say what you just said and find a willing within the economic community, the financial minute, the markets around the world, if he made that clearly a plan that we need to spend more and investment ideas to contribute to the economic growth and yet at the same time we have to match that with the kind of entitlement cuts that are...
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the way the system is set up, the educational system is set up, it teaches you how to memorize, take tests, repeat information back and you make a great grade so you end up with a degree but you don't learn anything, and so in order to be an effective learner you have to reverse the process, and take information and make it relevant to who you are. now you can remember it, now you begin to think about it, you can organize it, and make it applicable to the world you live in every single day. that's the first step that is your foundation for thinking, growing and development developing. >> rose: most people you think don't know who they really are? >> i would say 99 percent of the people in the world are focused on labels, they are stuffing the box, they are defined by race, they are defined by religion, they are defined by gender. >> rose: defined by what someone told them they were. >> what someone told them what they were, and they have no way to organize their own life so they can really find out who they are. and it is a sad thing, because you end up just being a worker. and you j
the way the system is set up, the educational system is set up, it teaches you how to memorize, take tests, repeat information back and you make a great grade so you end up with a degree but you don't learn anything, and so in order to be an effective learner you have to reverse the process, and take information and make it relevant to who you are. now you can remember it, now you begin to think about it, you can organize it, and make it applicable to the world you live in every single day....